Data Inequity

• The White House’s Equitable Data Working Group has defined equitable data as “those that allow for rigorous assessment of the extent to which government programs and policies yield consistently fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals.”
• It is important to democratize and make accessible public data for public use

Food Inequity

• In Cincinnati, over 270,000 households are experiencing food insecurity
• The problem is deep and wide, and its impact broad, with negative effects on developmental, behavioral, academic, and emotional outcomes among children

Community Data Explorer for Cincinnati

• CoDEC is a data repository composed of equitable, community-level data for Cincinnati
• Motivated by a desire to make community-level data more FAIR
• This data can be described, curated, and checked against CoDEC specifications using the {codec} R package

https://geomarker.io/codec/

CoDEC Overview

System to Achieve Food Equity

CoDEC Data Explorer

• Built in Shiny, extensively using {bslib}, {leaflet} and {ggiraph}, we developed a data explorer so that public users can visualize different relationships across the various CoDEC data items

SAFE Dashboard

• The SAFE stakeholders needed a public-facing dashboard to track meal coverage in Cincinnati neighborhoods
• Built primarily using {bs4Dash} and {ggiraph}
• Monthly data updates that are manual for now, but moving toward automation

Successes and Next Steps

Thank you!

• Dr. Cole Brokamp and the rest of our group at Cincinnati Children’s
• The SAFE team throughout Cincinnati, especially Charles Hoffman at 84.51 who developed the meal gap equation and data pipeline
• Appsilon for putting on the awesome ShinyConf and letting me share our story
• https://andrew-vancil.github.io/shinyconf24/